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For only the second time since it began reviewing mergers and joint ventures in 2008, when China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) came into effect, MOFCOM has blocked a proposed transact...
More than six months after the release of final Volcker Rule regulations, banking organizations continue to grapple with a long list of interpretive questions and an opaque process for se...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced a settlement on Monday, June 16, 2014 that marked its first case to protect a whistleblower under the anti-retaliation provisi...
A derivative action has been brought in Delaware Chancery Court alleging that Facebook’s board of directors breached their fiduciary duties and unjustly enriched themselves and wasted c...
The Senate Judiciary Committee removed legislation from its agenda that would have made it more difficult for patent assertion entities (“PAEs”) to pursue infringement claims, likely ...
The recent announcement that ISS has recommended against the election of the board of directors of Target because of the perceived failure to provide appropriate management of cyber-risk ...
On June 10, the PCAOB adopted Auditing Standard No. 18, which covers three key areas of increased risks for material misstatements: related party transactions, significant unusual transac...
Fifty-one shareholder resolutions asking that company boards be led by independent chair made it the most prevalent shareholder proposal topic in 2014, according to ISS. Four such proposa...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Act impose overlapping anti-retaliation provisions that generally prohibit retaliation against corporate “whistleblo...
The involuntary chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of American Bancorporation (“American”), commenced by a group of distressed debt investors holding American’s trust-preferred securities...